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12/09/2016

Hello A Flair For Buttons fans! It's Lee-Anne here and I love creating Christmas layouts and thought it would be fun to create a layout of my Christmas tree using some fabulous flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons.

I had a lot of fun creating this layout and I added lots of different techniques as I went along. I wanted to add lots and lots of whimsy to my layout so I added lots of flair buttons.

First I watercolored a 12X12 piece of white card stock with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink and a waterbrush. When it was dry, I cut the tree shape and also the Merry And Bright title with my Silhouette Cameo and hand stitched with green embroidery floss to the outside edge of the tree. I thought this would make the tree stand out more and also give it a handmade feel.

With my sewing machine, I machine stitched in white thread around the outside edge of the layout and stitched the title in place.

I added the green plaid paper behind the white card stock background and adhered with liquid glue around the outside edge. Now it is time to embellish. I had some sheer ribbon in red, green and aqua in my stash so I made some bows and added them to the tree. I then added the flair buttons on top of the ribbon bows and also on the layout. With some sheer aqua ribbon, I added it behind the white card stock background and secured it with tape to look like garland.

To finish the layout, I added my photo that I matted with plaid paper, added the sequins to the tree in brown for the trunk and aqua for the tree, some wood star and tree shapes and finally some journaling in black pen below the photo and added Liquid Glass to the title to give it more shine and dimension.

I love the depth that the tree has.

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12/06/2016

Hello there! It's Riikka here today sharing a black colored layout about love. Not the usual color for the subject maybe, but works for me! The layout actually was as a workshop sample I did during one of my workshops in Sweden a couple of months back.

The topic of the layout is my darling husband, or perhaps both of us. In the picture we are in a tram stop and I just thought that the shot was such a good one it should be scrapbooked. I'm always grateful how supporting my husband is to my crafting hobby and trips. He's just amazing! The journaling goes "You are important and dear! Thank you for being you!".

The color to the page is brought by some touches of mediums so I wanted the flair buttons to be black and white. The triangle version on the right side of the photo is from the "Bright Triangle" set and the arrow one on the left is from "Inspirational Words 3".

12/05/2016

Yup, that date does say March 25th, 2015. Can you believe we had so much snow on this day, that stuck to the ground? These pictures were at my sisters house, we had even more snow fall at my house 4 hours down the road. It was a surprise. No coats, hats or boots with us. The weather kinda stunk until I look back now and see how much fun my boy had driving his remote truck in the dirt and snow.

For my layout, I used Crate Paper Snow & Cocoa. I chose black and white flair (Big Words Flair) to help bring the black and white papers to the forefront. I love all the bits and just a touch of orange in the fox and snowflakes.

11/25/2016

Hello A Flair For Buttons fans! It's Lee-Anne here today with a back to school layout.

I love to use flair on just about every project I create. My layouts somehow seem bare to me without at least one flair button. For this layout, I added three flair buttons. Two buttons are from the Happy Flair Collection and one is from the Bowling Flair Collection.

I like to cluster my flair buttons with other embellishments and also use them to draw the eye to something on the layout such as the flair button placed to the left of the journaling strip.

11/24/2016

Life is good, isn't it? At least when I'm writing this post life is peachy. But what the title refers as well is the happy time I had this spring when I was invited to keep workshops in Britain. It was such an honor and such a joy! Loved every minute of it and I'm more than happy that I get to return there next year. Yay!

I used just two flairs in this project. The crown represents Britain and it's indeed from the "UK" set. I guess the "Crafty Chick" doesn't need much explaining. Maybe just a mention that I'm not referring only to myself but naturally to the ladies behind me in the photo and all who attended the four workshops!

The layout was started as a demo sample, but I finished it at home. I was demoing the foiling with the rub-ons but when it came to the title, the whole golden version was just too much. So I added two of the words with the foiled versions and then used just plain black alpha for the "good" part.

One other thing worth mentioning is maybe the use of the washi tape. As I wanted it to be more dimensional than just flat tape, I first adhered it on top of a piece of patterned paper and then attached the piece to the layout. I think the effect is quite nice with the pattern of the paper showing through the sheer tape!

11/22/2016

We recently took a hunting trip to my home town in Maine. I cut down my greenery for Christmas decorating and my boys went hunting. Completely different ideas of fun! I wanted to use up some of the remaining papers from Pebbles Warm & Cozy collection. It is perfect for this style layout and the flair that I had chose.

The entire paper was a bullseye, perfect for the theme but I covered the center red and black with a circle cut our of the deer paper. I can't help but love this paper!

11/17/2016

Happy Thursday, friends! Missy here today, and I have a new layout to share using some awesome flair from three different sets. I used the Black Marquee, Love You and Travel Phrases 2 sets. I love scrapping photos of our trips to Las Vegas, and this page was so fun to create! I used lots of watercolors and gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine, some random washi tapes, lots of MAMBI stickers and a few Project Life cards and a random piece of cardstock. I also added in a few cloud cut file die cuts I had sitting around on my desk from The Cut Shoppe. I had fun mixing and matching different things together on this. I used the packaging technique with the watercolor & spray on the background and added in some washi tape strips after I decided how I wanted to arrange the pictures. I was so excited when I realized how awesome these three flair looked here. I thing the Marquee collection is so perfect for a Vegas page! We visited Freemont Street on our most recent trip to Vegas, and that's where a lot of the older casinos are, like Binions and the Golden Nugget. These are pictures from Binions. We just had to pose in front of the million dollars...haha! I decided to line up all three flair instead of scattering them around the page. I love how they look on top of the blue watercolor, and all the gold really contrasts nicely. I cut "vegas" on my Cameo in a font called Shoreline and painted it red with some Shimmerz Coloringz. I absolutely LOVE this Thickers font! It's so Vegas! I stitched through the letters to make sure they were stuck for good. I also added some blue stitching here and up top by the photos.

To create those subtle numbers, I used some Elle's Studio stamps and some Heidi Swapp gold texture paste. I just pressed the stamp into the paste and stamped it down. I love the result...such a great effect and awesome texture! I felt like I needed numbers on a page about a Vegas Jackpot..haha! I also love how the clouds look...they don't really serve a specific purpose, but I love the detail with all the photos and fun gold. Here you can see the blue stitching. I also added some tangled thread and some gold round flat sequins from Spiegelmom Scraps. Here are a few more fun close-ups of all the detail.

11/08/2016

Hello there! How are you? Can you believe it's November already? I can't. I refuse to believe that it's a little more than a month until Christmas. I mean it was just summer and now it's already winter. Just can't wrap my mind around it.

Maybe because my mind still hasn't turned to winter I want to scrap summer photos still. You might take another look to the photo after reading that as we are wearing knitted hats and scarves in the photo. Yes, I did say summer. It was a really chilly day and the end of summer time, but still August. There's me peeking in the background then a lovely bunch of people whom I'm lucky to call my friends that attended a show in the middle of nowhere just to see one band live this year. It was a total yolo experience and would do it again in a heartbeat!

I guess you can see that I really enjoyed the trip because the layout turned really pink and even a bit romantic! It wasn't my goal in the first place, but once again I let the project lead me and this is what it wanted to be.

I started with some watercolors and made the rub-ons sparkly with foil. There's also some stamping but otherwise the background is really simple. I continued the shining effect of the rub-ons by using a patterned paper with some foil details.

As you may have noticed already, I love to mix different flairs together. These are from set "I Create", "Vintage Girls with Flowers" and "Pink Butterflies". The "I collect" one fitted the theme as I thought about collecting memories, the butterfly reflects the color scheme I was using and the vintage girl had a love pink rose and as I used a black and white photo, it mimicked that, too.

11/07/2016

When you think of Crew (Rowing) you think of whales, right? I couldn't help but use this High Five collection by We R Memory Keepers. I paired it with the geo tag flair from Just Words 3 and the pretty green Quatre Foil Bright flair. The Black and White flair at the top provides the perfect sentiment!

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